The change of social action normative status due to the changes of social systems: Normative space, conflicts and communication
Abstract
The article is a response to today’s challenges regarding manifestations of social conflicts and the processes of conflict resistance in the context of the hybrid war in Ukraine. The article is also an attempt to answer the question on the dynamics of transition between the individual and social levels of functioning in a social tension situation, known as “change of social action normative status due to the changes of social system”. Research subject understanding relies on historically established achievements in the study of social structures (J. P. Murdoch, T. Parsons) and systemcreation processes (G. Schedrovitskyi, Y. Shchepanskyi) as well as various aspects of the transition probability of tension from one level of social functioning to another. The system approach applied in the article determines the situation of social tension as a reaction to the social challenges: on the one hand – to protect self-autonomy, on the other – to resist the familiarization with the innovative propositions. It is stated that the instability of social systems and the probability of transition between its levels are fixed through such concepts as social anomie and social deviations, social norms, social entropy and corruption – with their influence on the lowest (individual) level of social functioning by stigmatization of habituation processes as coexistence adaptation mechanisms in society. The determining part of this process is the established norm of reaction to the hypothetical changes in the social system, which thus ensures the predicted direction of its development, as well as the choice of means of intensity to balance the social processes, as the communication directing either towards the formation of a normative space or towards its conflict destruction. The structure-functional model on the analysis of social systems developed by the author is described as an explanation of the above-mentioned processes
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